About Our Club:
The Winfield Junior Woman’s Club originated in 1967 by a group of six women who understood the need for a service organization in our growing community with Barbara Gary serving as the first president. One of the first major projects that the Club undertook was to celebrate the Illinois Sesquicentennial in 1968. This event proved to be so popular with Winfield residents that the event became Winfield’s annual Good Old Days celebration, held the weekend after Labor Day ever since.
Other women heard the call, and membership grew quickly. Their accomplishments included the purchase of playground equipment, which they installed themselves, long before the park district was formed. They helped with library services when our library was very small and worked out of a store front location across from the old post office on Church Street. They also initiated a meeting of all the community service organizations to initiate a community festival. This resulted in Good Old Days. We continue to work to provide services within our community, devoting time to projects that help our county, state, country, and the world.
The Winfield Junior Woman’s Club is a charitable organization with a Section 501(c)3 designation. We are affiliated with the 5th district of Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs (IFWC), the 5th District Junior Organization, and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC). The IFWC proudly boasts the largest number of members in any state, with 22 districts statewide. The GFWC is the largest and oldest nondenominational, nonpartisan, international service organization of volunteer women in the world.
Organized in 1890, it now has about 10 million members in some 47 countries, and approximately 500,000 members in 11,000 Women’s Clubs in the United States.
Executive Board 2011 – 2012
Presidents: Karen Russo, Denys Malay and Valerie Fraser
1st Vice President: Lori Bloomfield
2nd Vice President: Patti Weber
Treasurer: Monica Rundell
Secretary: Deb Tocco-Schulze
Advisor: Dolly Pointner